Westview High School (San Diego)

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Westview High School
Contact Information	Phone: (858) 780-2000 Fax: (858) 780-2055
Established	2002
Type	Public
Principal	Dawn Kastner
Location	13500 Camino del Sur San Diego, California United States
District	Poway Unified School District
Enrollment	2,044 students
Grades	9 to 12
Publication	The Nexus
Mascot	Wally Wolverine and Wilma Wolverine
Website	[1]

Westview High School is a secondary school located in Rancho Penasquitos, a community of San Diego, California. It is part of the Poway Unified School District of California in the United States.

The biggest rivals to Westview are the Mount Carmel Sundevils. Other major rivals include Poway High School and Rancho Bernardo High School.

Westview is accredited by the Schools Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Its CEEB school code is #052-986.

Contents 1 Administration and staff 2 Standards 3 Student Publications 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Administration and staff

Westview is divided into three "hubs," each with a separate administration system and cadre of homeroom teachers, designed to cultivate intraschool competition and camaraderie. The combined staff consists of 85 teachers, 4 administrators, 3 counselors, 1 librarian, 1 school psychologist, and 39 support staff. Of the 92 credentialed faculty (teachers, administrators and counselors), 50 faculty members hold advanced degrees, 42 do not.^{[citation needed]}

• Superintendent: Don Phillips
• Principal: Dawn Kastner
• Hub 1 administrator:
  • Counselor: Chip Seiple
• Hub 2 administrator: Todd Cassen
  • Counselor: Linda Suokko
• Hub 3 administrator: Michael Dodson
  • Counselor: Sally Flournoy

[edit] Standards

Originally, Westview incorporated a "standards" system into its grading policy. These standards were based on state standards, and all classes were required to implement them. Each course had a set of standards that students had to pass in order to obtain a passing grade. Each standard had to do with a particular concept taught in the course, and a student passed the standard when he or she demonstrated sufficient knowledge of the concept. One effect of the standards system was that a student was guaranteed a passing grade if he or she passed all the standards of the class. A student would not receive credit for the class if even one standard was incomplete at the end of the quarter. This was especially problematic in math and science courses, which generally had large amounts of standards. This system was dropped at the end of the 2004-2005 school year.

[edit] Student Publications

The student newspaper is The Nexus and is a broadsheet of 12 pages. It recently was awarded fourth place at the 2006 JEA/NSPA Spring National Convention. The yearbook Impressions has also received various awards and recognition. Both publications together took home the Grand Sweepstakes in County Write-offs 2006, after winning the individual Newspaper Sweepstakes and Yearbook Sweepstakes. Westview also has a literary magazine, Spun Gold, but its activity level is low, and gets published only once a year.

[edit] See also

• Primary and secondary schools in San Diego, California

[edit] External links

• Westview High School homepage
• Poway Unified School District homepage